PTAD deletes names of 900 pensioners over unverifiable data

Names of about 900 pensioners have been deleted from nation’s pension list as their biometric details/records could neither be verified nor ascertained, the Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, has revealed.
Barrister Ikeazor, who made the revelation at the weekend in Abuja while answering questions from Journalists, explained that all efforts to verify the necessary details of the affected pensioners proved abortive.
The affected persons, according to her, would no longer be entitled to collection of pension.
She explained that the nation is now presently left with a list of 220,000 pensioners after the removal of the 900 names.
The Executive Secretary listed some of the challenges facing PTAD to include; poor pensioner records management, several verification exercises with no credible database, slow manual procedures and poor service delivery as well as negative public perception.
Barrister Ikeazor made it very clear that PTAD, during her tenure, would have zero tolerance for corruption, unlike in the past when the sector was bedeviled with lot sharp practices and other forms of vices.
While pledging to fight hard to protect the rights of the pensioners, the Executive Secretary assured that necessary decency will also be brought into the administration of pension in the country.